Asymptotic analysis and sign changing bubble towers for Lane-Emden problems

Francesca De Marchis, Isabella Ianni, Filomena Pacella

Published 2013-09-26, updated 2014-02-17Version 2

We consider the semilinear Lane-Emden problem in a smooth bounded domain of the plane. The aim of the paper is to analyze the asymptotic behavior of sign changing solutions as the exponent p of the nonlinearity goes to infinity. Among other results we show, under some symmetry assumptions on the domain, that the positive and negative parts of a family of symmetric solutions concentrate at the same point, as p goes to infinity, and the limit profile looks like a tower of two bubbles given by a superposition of a regular and a singular solution of the Liouville problem in the plane.